Quotes About Education

How do I love campuses? Let me count the ways. I

We learn most where we know the least. For

Since studies show that low self-esteem correlates with both prejudice and violence – that people who have a negative view of themselves also tend to view other people and the world negatively – representatives were interested in introducing self-esteem programs in schools.

I hope the day will come when everyone can have books that tell the truth.

The fundamental lessons of life are taught in the class of truth.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

Du reste je déteste tout ce qui ne fait que m'instruire, sans augmenter mon activité ou l'animer directement.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him

O verdadeiro analfabetismo é a falta de curiosidade; a curiosidade é a essência da cultura.

Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.

How little humane feeling after all was to be found in men's hearts; how much coarseness and cruelty was to be found even in the educated and those who were everywhere regarded as good and honorable men.

In Sweden they have a very different approach. There, preschool children are encouraged to play and relax without any structured learning for the first six years of their lives. They go for nature walks every day, even in the bitter Scandinavian winter. They are not taught to read until they are seven years of age, yet by the age of ten, Swedish children consistently lead European literacy rankings.

You never learn anything if you're the one talking

To save a girl is to save generations!

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.